Looking Up

October 28th, 2004

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Looking Up

Yesterday I walked by from our office (here, at Quebec and East 2nd) back to my apartment, along False Creek (MapQuest more or less gets it right). I happened to have my camera with me, so I took a bunch of photos that ended up being all about sun, glass, reflection and refraction. Nothing earth-shatteringly brilliant. If nothing else, it was a heck of a nice day.

I note that Flickr shrank all of my photos to a maximum of 500 pixels wide. Is that a limitation of a free account, or a setting I can modify? Regardless, if you want a screensaver size version of the ~~ScienceWorld~~ TELUSphere photo, here it is.

Comments: 10 Responses so far

Chris
October 28th, 2004
9:37 pm

Take a look at item #7 on Flickr’s FAQ page. They mention a ‘Large’ size and a Pro account.

http://www.flickr.com/help.gne#18

-Chris

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Darren
October 28th, 2004
9:40 pm

Thanks for that. The text is rather silly, isn’t it?

# 75×75 pixels
# 120 pixels (on the longest side)
# 240 pixels
# 500 pixels
# Large
# And the original size (if you hold a pro account)

Why does the size jump from pixel measurement to ‘Large’? So that ‘Large’ can be a floating number, which they can adjust based on demand? All of the photos I uploaded were 800 pixels on the longer side. Does that qualify as ‘Large’ or ‘original’? The latter is only available to pro account, which is fair enough.

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Kyle
October 29th, 2004
12:38 am

The larges seem to be 1024px on the largest size. The reason they might not specify it where you read that is because it was written before they offered pro accounts and they hadn’t determined what “large” would be yet.

Your 800×600px images would be “original” if you had a pro account. Since they’re too small for the ‘large’ size it just gets dropped.

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daryl
October 29th, 2004
1:19 am

they need to wash that sphere.

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Darren
October 29th, 2004
9:27 am

Thanks for that, Kyle.

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Chanelle
October 29th, 2004
7:48 pm

What? Really? TELUSphere? When did that happen? Is it all about the science of phones now?

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Darren
October 29th, 2004
8:18 pm

Chanelle: Follow the bouncing bucks: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=9a665069-0b72-49e2-8e55-ca1091856ba5.

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Jeff
October 29th, 2004
11:06 pm

I checked my flickr page - and it’s still letting me use larger sizes (free acount too)
Take a look-
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1137514&size=o

I’m probably next for the scale back.

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Jeff
October 29th, 2004
11:07 pm

ooops - here’s the real URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1137514_1b322422b3_o.jpg

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